Breeze: Sorry, but you’re clearly wrong on this and you’re pulling your information from biased sources (HuffPost).
How many people do you know that are in either Iraq or Afghanistan right now? I happen to know six (four in Iraq and two in Afghanistan). I can tell you, without any fear of contradiction, that the continuing disintegration of Afghanistan and the loss of operational tempo that was sustained during NATO’s assumption of various areas of responsibility was watched closely by Centcom and several operations plans at various troop levels were drawn up.
The operations plans were all contingent upon which units would be available for deployment and how many of the NATO forces would be supplanted by US forces and how long, in terms of sustaining combat operations, those forces would be there.
You DO NOT move entire US Army combat brigades or Marine Expeditionary Units/Forces overnight. A good friend of mine is an LTC with Centcom and we’ve been talking about this on and off for over the last year. I’d wager he has a far better handle, being one of those “boots on the ground” than any of the punditocracy over at HuffPost.
